[Am-info] Re: Dr. Bombay: Everything but MS is irrelevant

[Marcus de Geus]

In reply to a message from <am-info-request@lists.essential.org>
sent Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:00:02 -0400 (2003-09-13 16:00:02 UTC (Sat)):

<indiscriminate quoting>

> "Dr. Emilio Bombay" is really Michael Gerst, ...

> Each column he writes reaches more eyeballs, and more impressionable
> minds, than the sum total of eveything that ever has been written on
> AM-INFO.

> It is fluff, mostly, but unsophisticated people read it because they
> think they are learning something.

> I think, for him, it is a job, nothing more.

</indiscrimate quoting>

Right. And let's not forget that, apart from us and a few others like us, m=
ost people don't care (and probably don't know) what combination of MB/OS/c=
hipset/whatever manages to get their computer screens filled with whatever =
they are looking at -- as long as it comes pre-installed and eats anything =
you throw at it, after a fashion. Who cares if something else is both bette=
r and cheaper in the long run? Let's face it, fast food also managed to con=
quer the world.

If at all possible, "using" Michael Gerst to influence the opinion of a par=
t of the world's population on the subject of computer operating systems pr=
obably is not going to work unless techno-speak is avoided. Tough, but poss=
ible, I'd say. The question is, who qualifies?

Best regards,

Marcus de Geus
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